Past Stories

Manga Studio 5

In the Hall of the Mountain King

Today starts a 5-day update schedule. Normally I would start this on Sunday with the larger format comic, but given the punchline, it had to go up today. But, this and the next four are tied together as one mini-story arc. To kick off this new schedule, I wrote this story up special so you’d get it all in one week.

To clarify, all the comics will be in color. Mainly because it’s what I want to do. The smaller format on the other 4 days is easier to draw in a timely fashion. This is an experiment and we’ll see how it goes.

Also, I start a new full-time job today. My freelance career was dying a slow death this year and money seems to come in real handy in this world, plus my kids were getting a little peckish, so this is a good thing. I am not sure of the time constraints on the comic, as I draw the comics at night anyway, so there should be no impact. Again, we’ll see what comes of all these new things.

Rock on, man… 😀

Oh, the comic title is from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. “Mountain King” is the finale just builds and builds… like this storyline will. Hey, it’s also 4/20… it could mean anything, man…

There’s something different to the colors. The comic feels a bit like the first strips, when Bud had that V8 and Jeff didn’t use to comb his hair…
IT’S GREAT!
Thanks for the “vintage feelling”. It feels more like 1977 now, heheh.

Had to admit, trhis was my first association…. so THAT’s 4/20 (20th April). Being european, the only link I could think of was Adolf Hitler’s birthday! (Happy 127th, Adolf…) glad there’s a better reason…